PLEASE NOTE THAT THE VENUE HAS CHANGED. THIS EVENT WILL NOW TAKE PLACE AT:

53 Colvestone Crescent, London, E8 2LG.

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This Spring, the Song Collectors Collective invites you to Lore School…

Lore School is a new workshop series (3 sessions in total) focusing on the skills and lore of song collecting, storytelling, fieldwork and other ‘bardic arts’, from many of the finest practitioners working today.

Each monthly session we will have two special guests, each sharing:

‘How I Learnt the Lore’ - an informal talk exploring a personal journey, looking at creative and professional development, and best practice

Followed by ‘Laying Down the Lore’ - a knowledge exchange, sharing song/s, stories, rituals or skills of personal significance, passed on to the group for safekeeping and further transmission

Lore School will take place at 53 Colvestone Crescent, London, E8 2LG, 10.30am-2pm.

£15 per session (£10 concession).

£40 for all three sessions - please email scc@thenestcollective.co.uk.

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LORE SCHOOL SESSION #1 - FIELD

Sunday 2 February 2019

A day of storytelling, folklore and theatre with Hugh lupton and Debs Newbold.

Hugh Lupton is one of Britain’s leading storytellers. Hugh’s interest in traditional music, in street theatre, in live poetry, and in myth, resulted in him becoming a professional storyteller in 1981 (there were perhaps half a dozen in Britain at the time), working largely in schools. In 1985 he formed the Company of Storytellers with Ben Haggarty and Pomme Clayton with a view to taking storytelling to adult audiences (until that point it had been perceived as an art-form for children). He has toured Africa and South America for the British Council and regularly performs in Europe and the USA. He has published several collections of folk-tales including the award winning Tales of Wisdom and Wonder described by the Independent as ‘Lucid and haunting… a book to treasure.’ He has appeared on radio and television (most recently Late Junction on radio 3, Something Understood on BBC Radio 4, King Arthur on the Discovery Channel and Beowulf for the Open University on BBC 2).

Debs Newbold is a theatre artist based in London and West Yorkshire. She is an actor, director and performance storyteller working across a range of theatre forms, with a love of work that playfully explores performer-audience relationships. Debs writes powerful one woman shows, sometimes directs them, and tours them internationally. Her work puts the poetic and the irreverent side by side, and often mixes modern theatre forms with the intimacy and informality of storytelling. Her work as an actor and director has seen her in collaboration with companies such as the BBC, Red Ladder, Shakespeare’s Globe, Rose Theatre Kingston, the Royal Opera House, Half Moon Theatre and Draycott-Trimm. Her solo pieces have played venues as diverse as the Royal Opera House, the British Library, the Southbank Centre, Hay Festival and Shakespeare’s Globe theatre, as well as many prestigious theatres and festivals in the UK, US and Europe.